Maliha Masood
Author of Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: Adventures, Dreams, and Destinations Across the Middle East
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Maliha Masood an emerging playwright and the founder of Diwaan: Dialogue on Islam, a cultural theater collective based in Seattle
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Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: Adventures, Dreams, and… by Maliha Masood
Masood straddles that line between American and Pakistani, Pakistani and American. Born in Pakistan, her family moved to America when Masood was in middle school. Now, eighteen years later, Masood is traveling haphazardly through the Middle East. She bought a one-way ticket with no intention of having a specific itinerary. It was a journey just be to on a journey. One could call it a trek to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey as some sort of spiritual quest to find herself or get back to her ancestral roots. Did she? I'm not really certain. To be sure, Masood had some crazy adventures (some more dangerous than others), she had a few cultural misunderstandings, and she relied heavily on the natives she befriended (I felt bad for the men who fell in love with her). All in all, she survived her seventeen months of travel relatively unscathed.… (more)
Masood travels alone across Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, though she does not speak the languages of these countries and though she is both a foreigner and a woman. All of these get Masood into deep trouble at times. In the process of traveling she deepens her Muslim faith and makes many new friends.
This book made we want to hop on a plane and travel. Maliha Masood wrote about her travels in a very fascinating manner and her stories about the people she met gave hope about people in this world.
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